Schooling Challenges of Low Socio–Economic Status Learners in Basic Education in Delta State

Socio-economic status (SES) is one of the deciding factors in educational enhancement achievement indicators. Learners from Low Socio-economic status home are adversely affected in their schooling thereby being excluded in education. The study therefore looked at challenges that low SES learners face in their schooling as well as strategies that school and government can adopt to mitigate the challenges. To carry out the study, two research questions were raised and answered while two hypotheses were tested; ex post facto research design was employed for this study with a population of 1340 teachers in public primary schools in Delta central. A sample of 403 teachers was used. The findings revealed that the challenges faced by low SES learners includes pupils having no textbooks for subjects, not having access to android phone from their parents to do assignment, not meeting up with school levies, not participating in extracurricular activities amongst others are challenges facing schooling of low SES learners. It was recommended that strategies such as empowering low SES families with government initiatives like the conditional cash transfer should be embarked upon, also the free feeding programme for basic education should be continued, while data of households of low SES should be obtained and used for planning educational provision.